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How to get your own library of rural-suburban lifestyle books...

another gorgeous fall sunrise - with fog

Just taking a break from all my other work. Because you deserve to hear this announcement...

I've been finding and editing classic books (and some more modern ones, too) which tell you how you can be prepared, homestead, or simply learn the skills your grandparents and theirs knew about how to survive and thrive with what you have.

These cover a fairly broad area, but some of the niches include:

• gardening
• organic and natural farming
• dogs and horses, training and care.
• farm outbuildings - how to build shacks, shanties, and barns
• farm mechanics - how to fix or build about anything.
• preparedness - first aid, survival techniques
• etc.

And I'm going to start publishing them here so you can share in these discoveries.

Meaning, you can start eating better quality food, preparing it in healthier ways, finding natural ways to improve your health, and live better than ever before. (Well, at least you'll have the option. Your mileage may vary...)

This means I'm expanding Worstell Farms beyond quality Missouri grass fed beef.

I also operate Midwest Journal Press as it's director. My "day job", so to speak.

And while I can service maybe a dozen or so clients who can drive inside Missouri to pick up my beef, I can also help people internationally with references and material that enable them to improve their lives by living more in harmony with Nature - specifically, getting to understand natural laws and principles.

This means all the areas above.

You see, I've found out that there are a heckuva lot of books which have never been re-published or promoted properly. And some great books are available only as overpriced textbooks when the material itself is in the public domain.

Since I've studied up on how to find these books and publish them, you benefit by being able to get both the ebook version for your smartphone/phablet/ereader - or get the print edition (without having to pay an arm, leg, first-born, etc.)

It's some work, but seems to be worth it - as people want to buy these books. (There's one book on grazing which everyone refers to, but no one has ever set up an online course to train people straight from the facts he set out in 1959.)

So I'll be able to get these books and enable you to read, study, and apply them to improve your life - wherever you live, even if it's not on a farm.

You've already seen me post one book on this ("Domestic Animals" by Richard Allen.) Look for more shortly (there will be about 50 of them here, with many more in the pipeline.)

And that's the news today.

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It's Alive! Successfully made it through re-design...

(photocredit: Digital Wallpapers)

Don't look so surprised - I've been doing this type stuff for years...

Owing to recently being told we needed new web-hosting, I pushed forward on a design and back-end re-build I knew was coming anyway.

Now we have a much more accessible (and better looking) website with all the original data, as well as better links. 

Some of the things we improved:

• You can access all the pages on the side now - in nice-looking and functional drop-down menu's. 
• The menu's at the top now go to additional areas of interest which gardening, farming, and homesteading types will find interesting.
• We've revived the concept of a "Buyer's Club" so you can possibly (in the near future) be able to buy grass-fed hamburger by the pound - for members only - nearly any time you need it. You'll have to come to the farm, though.
• And the whole thing is much easier on the eyes, since we've gotten away from the limits of the old backend.

Hope you like it.

Another great change was being able to add more labels/categories to each post and also to add in related pages (courtesy of Zemanta.)

Which means you can more readily find related materials, either on this site or others, so you can find all the data you need for anything you want to read about.

That might take you into some rabbit-holes, but on the other hand may give you some exciting new concepts to think about - and improve your life with.

Because that is the sole reason for this site - to help you improve your life and eat better. We aren't here to make a lot of money selling grass-fed Missouri meat. We well our beef direct in order to keep the farm sustainable and help you live a better-quality life. Also, we can only raise so much beef on the acres we have, which means only so much beef is possible every year. Once we get enough regular clients, we'll shut down that list (so contact us today!)

As long as you are on our mailing list (yes, I updated that old form and now it's easier than ever to sign up - see the "Contact Us" page) - then you'll get an email notice every spring about our up-and-coming beef for that year.

What else is new...

Otherwise, since I otherwise make my pin-money writing and publishing books. (That site also had to get an update/upgrade.) I've found a great set of books which have wound up in the public domain, but simply need to be polished up a bit and made re-available for your use. Natural Diet, Preparedness, Sustainable Farming - all of these things. Also some great books on gardening and raising beef, plus others...

I hope to have them up for you within a few months - but there are a few earlier books in the queue. They'll also have ecourses you can take (some free) and probably videos to tell you whats in the book that's useful for you - and why I took the time to republish them for you.

Those are for the other sections across the top of this page (although the books on raising beef will show up in this section somewhere.)

Lots of work still remaining.

But I wanted to update you on how and why this site is now so great-looking and full of content.  Better than ever.

You're welcome!

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